Sentence:  Indeed , it is even surprising in the <WSD>Canon</WSD> of Christ Church and Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History , 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:  a rule or especially body of rules or principles generally established as valid and fundamental in a field or art or philosophy