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 is questioned; he may have been from another place called Neufchâtel. 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, 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.