I just started reading this a few days ago, and several things in it struck me.  One example is faith.  Faith is compared to a naked person, because "everyone blushes" to discuss matters of faith.  It sounds like the situation today; people shy away from discussing such things for fear of "offending" someone.  Yet it was written in the fourteenth century.  If God considered matters so bad then, how much worse must they seem to Him now!