It is a treatise of eloquence; the language is constantly refined...regularly rich in rhetorical devices in an attempt to carefully unravel and explain difficult concepts, ideas, and intricate thoughts (and therefore may be less comprehensible to an uninitiated non-Anglophone such as myself).
Philip Knox is a University Lecturer in Medieval English Literature at the University of Cambridge, and a fellow of King's College. He is one of the editors of New Medieval Literatures.