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

Notes

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  2. https://books.google.com/books?id=a-5Q0qPWpT4C&lpg=PA56&ots=AGkQ2nR2wV&dq=Hugh%20of%20Newcastle%20neufchatel&pg=PA56#v=onepage&q=neufchatel&f=false
  3. Marjorie Reeves, The Influence of Prophecy in the Later Middle Ages: A Study in Joachimism (1969), p. 83.
  4. , Jane G. WhiteThe Key to The Name of the Rose (1999),p. 66.

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