Modlitewnik jako medium pamięci. Rzecz o Barbarze Ludowice z Dłuskich Nowomiejskiej, praprababce Józefa Ignacego Kraszewskiego

Abstract

Barbara Ludowika Nowomiejska (née Dłuska) was the first owner of the Korona Niebieska Prayer Book, which was published in 1727 in Sandomierz. The tears of individual family members accumulated on its pages make it possible to qualify the book as a medium of memory. If not for this eighteenth-century prayer book and the memories associated with it, Józef Ignacy Kraszewski would not have had an opportunity to present the readers with the fate of a „courageous woman”, the owner of the „precious relics”, i.e. his great-great grandmother. The memory of Barbara Ludowika Nowomiejska (née Dłuska) has survived to modern times only due to the fact that the „Golden Altar” was passed down with such reverence from generation to generation and since the 1960s has been respectfully stored in the Museum of Józef Ignacy Kraszewski in Romanów.