@inbook{10.3138/9781442685109.11,
 ISBN = {9780802090133},
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/9781442685109.11},
 abstract = {The men and women who turned to the Virgin Mary for spiritual comfort and guidance in the Middle Ages may have felt that the Mother of God was more approachable than the Father. Certainly this is true of thirteenth-century Franciscan writer Walter of Wimborne. His poetry expresses ambivalence towards the God who ‘prius rigidus et quasi seuiens / sub lege fuerat et leo rugiens’ (previously under the law was rigid / and like a raging, roaring lion), a God who held in his hand ‘ferulam ... et trucem uirgulam’ (the whip and savage rod). Walter seems to have been a},
 author = {JENIFER SUTHERLAND},
 booktitle = {Virginity Revisited: Configurations of the Unpossessed Body},
 pages = {128--148},
 publisher = {University of Toronto Press},
 title = {Amplification of the Virgin: Play and Empowerment in Walter of Wimborne’s Marie Carmina},
 year = {2007}
}