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

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

External links

Franaut page Archived 2016-12-20 at the Wayback Machine
Michael Tilly (1990). "Hugo de Novocastro". In Bautz, Friedrich Wilhelm (ed.). Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German). Vol. 2. Hamm: Bautz. col. 1144. ISBN 3-88309-032-8.

[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] Marjorie Reeves, The Influence of Prophecy in the Later Middle Ages: A Study in Joachimism (1969), p. 83.

[4] Jane G. White, The Key to The Name of the Rose (1999), p. 66.

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