What is the author's style in The Heptameron by Marguerite de Navarre?

The language of this novel is antiquated and for this reason may be difficult for some to understand. The novel is set in the time of ladies and knights, queens and kings. For this reason, it seems to take on almost a fairy tale atmosphere. It was a time when men worked to earn honor and enter the "service" of high-ranking ladies. This "service" usually involved some sort of sexual relationship between the two. Marriages in this time period where strictly restricted to occur only between people of similar social classes. For this reason, couples were often married who had no romantic love for one another at all. Or, in the instance of the man in Story Twelve, some men were even married to girls too young to be proper lovers to them.