1. Education

The answer is The Consolation of Philosophy.

Boethius was a Roman philosopher of the early sixth century; his Consolatio Philosophiae discusses free will, destiny, and God's omniscience, and was highly influential to medieval thought. Chaucer was profoundly influenced by the work, most obviously in his poem Troilus and Criseyde, which he wrote soon after his translation of Boethius.

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