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 another place called Neufchâtel.[2]

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,[3] 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.[4]

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. ^ Lerner, Robert E. (2009). The Powers of Prophecy: The Cedar of Lebanon Vision from the Mongol Onslaught to the Dawn of the Enlightenment. ISBN 978-0801475375.
  3. ^ Reeves, Marjorie (1969). The Influence of Prophecy in the Later Middle Ages: A Study in Joachimism. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 83. ISBN 0-19-824332-4.
  4. ^ White, Jane G. (1999). The Key to The Name of the Rose. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. p. 66. ISBN 0-472-08621-9.