Sentence:  Indeed , it is even surprising in the Canon of Christ Church and Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical <WSD>History</WSD> , who fathered this most peculiar view , and in the brilliant Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge , who inherited it and is now its most eminent proponent . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings