Pope Joan
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Pope Joan" is an English country dance in cut time and G minor.<br> It appears in Playford's Dancing Master 9th Ed. (1695) and Walsh's The<br> Dancing-Master (1709).<br> Pope Joan (Ioannes Anglicus; 855–857) was, according to legend, a woman who reigned<br> as pope for a few years during the Middle Ages. Her story first appeared in<br> chronicles in the 13th century and subsequently spread throughout Europe.<br> The story was widely believed for centuries, but most modern scholars regard it as<br> fictional since Pope Leo IV died in 855 and Benedict III was immediately elected,<br> leaving no possibility of an interregnum between them. Pope Joan supposedly<br> reigned as John VIII but the historical Pope John VIII reigned from 872 to 882.<br> I have not found any description coupled with a tune file for this tune.<br> It was also printed in Barlow's Complete Country Dance Tunes from Playford's Dancing<br> Master (1985).<br>
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