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Geoffrey Chaucer's the 'Nun's Priest's Tale,' from 'Canterbury Tales,' stretched rhetorical and religious language boundaries. The fable portrayed the need to confine aberrant thinking but the writing of the tale deviated from accepted practices and supported an expansion of ideas. The 'Nun's Priest's Tale' demonstrated how the attempt to restrict ideas and movement often resulted in their expansion. Chaucer's writing reflected the changes and transitions of the period.

Dante Alighieri may have used the image of the dark wood to represent the potential for errors that may be encountered by a student of Biblical text. This interpretation is based on the writings of Sts. Augustine and Bonaventure and counters the prevailing idea that the dark wood represents sinful ways lead to alienation from God. Dante may have been pointing out how the Scriptures are dangerous only when the reader has misinterpreted the text, and would thus need guidance from more inspired interpreters.

An essay is presented about a hypothetical argument in favor of attributing the poem "Piers Plowman" to Medieval poet Geoffrey Chaucer instead of poet William Langland, based on 16th century literary critic John Leland's book "De uiris illustribus." The apocryphal Chaucer story "The Plowman's Tale" is mentioned, as well as 18th century critic Humfrey Wanley, Medieval English manuscripts, and 18th century atheist Joseph Ritson.

Describes the poem `Nun's Priest's Tale,' by poet Geoffrey Chaucer, with emphasis on the poem's presentation and enactment of tyrannical enclosure. Reference to Chaucer's mention of the biblical episode of Nimrod and Bable in the poem `The Former Age; Views on the closing words of the `Nun's Priest's Tale.'