What is the author's style in the novel, Wolf Hall?

Hilary Mantel tells her novel “Wolf Hall” in language that is poetic and replete with medieval and Middle English terms. The novel – which spans the time between the year 1500 and 1535 in England – is historical in nature, and so the use of uncommon words in the contemporary world lend a sense of realism and atmosphere to the novel. For example, Mantel uses words like uxorious (meaning to dote upon or be submissive and weak before one’s wife), obdurate (to be unmoved by passion or persuasion, and to be unyielding), and hauteur (arrogance). The poetic prose the novel is told in also helps to establish a sense of realism and atmosphere, for language in the medieval world was more romantic, careful, and considered in use than it is it today (where language is brief and quick to the point).