What is the author's style in The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser?

A story intended to teach a moral lesson. The stories in The Faerie Queene are designed to teach people how to be better Christians and how to live a moral life. The bible is one of the most obvious sources of parables, since religion traditionally relies upon stories to teach lessons. This tradition stems from a period in which most men and women could not read, and the clergy found that stories were the most effective way to instruct moral lessons. Spenser uses his poetry in much the same way that the clergy uses the bible, to tell stories that teach a lesson.