Hugh of Newcastle

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.

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.

In literature

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

References

• 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)

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.

External links

• Franaut page
• Michael Tilly (1990). Bautz, Friedrich Wilhelm. ed (in German). Hugo de Novocastro. Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). 2. Hamm. col. 1144. ISBN 3-88309-032-8. http://www.bautz.de/bbkl/h/hugo_d_no.shtml.