Hugh of Newcastle

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Hugh of Newcastle (died 1322, buried in Paris) was a Franciscan theologian and scholastic philosopher, a pupil of Duns Scotus. His origin in Newcastle-upon-Tyne[1] is questioned; he may have been from Neufchâtel.

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[edit] Works

He wrote a commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard. He was also author of a prophetic work De Victoria Christi contra Antichristum, from 1319[2], encyclopedic on the Apocalypse and its signs, printed in 1471.

[edit] In literature

Hugh is a character in The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco[3].


[edit] Reference

  • Charles Victor Langlois (1925) Hugo de Novocastro or de Castronovo, Frater Minor; also printed in pp. 269-276, Andrew G. Little, Frederick M. Powicke (editors), Essays in Medieval History Presented to Thomas Frederick Tout (1977)

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Hugh
  2. ^ Marjorie Reeves, The Influence of Prophecy in the Later Middle Ages: A Study in Joachimism (1969), p. 83.
  3. ^ , Jane G. WhiteThe Key to The Name of the Rose (1999),p. 66.

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