Hugh of Newcastle explained

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)

External links

• Franaut page

Notes and References

1. http://seaham.i12.com/myers/m-hugh.html Hugh
2. Book: The Powers of Prophecy: The Cedar of Lebanon Vision from the Mongol Onslaught to the Dawn of the Enlightenment. 978-0801475375. Lerner. Robert E.. 2009.
3. Book: Reeves, Marjorie . The Influence of Prophecy in the Later Middle Ages: A Study in Joachimism . 1969 . Oxford . Clarendon Press . 0-19-824332-4 . 83 .
4. Book: White, Jane G. . The Key to The Name of the Rose . 1999 . University of Michigan Press . Ann Arbor . 0-472-08621-9 . 66 .