Hugh of Newcastle
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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)
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External links
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