ZANATSTVO U DOBA KRALjA MILUTINA

The economic growth happened during the reign of King Uroš II Milutin in medieval Serbia based on the development of mining and technology leap, parallel with the processes of conquering new territories and byzantiontion, as the urbanization, affected the economic sector itself. The production of precious metals increases, money is minted and the trade flourishes. The strong financial basis finds its special reflection in the increase and strengthening of the army, but also in construction, which in the literature is characterized as above average for one ruler. In addition, apart from the construction itself and military craft production, there is also a flourishing of arts and handicrafts, as well as the use of certain materials. Moreover, there is a flourishing of artistic crafts, as well as further stratification and differentiation of crafts. At the same time, the influences of Byzantium on the craft, that were in the continuity flowed, strengthened in the time of Milutin, as through the alliance, which was crowned with marriage, or through the newly seized territories, which until then were in the Byzantine economic system. Also the arrival of skilled craftsmen from the territory of Byzantium, whose work is preserved both in written sources and in the form of immovable material remains, was one more step for gaining new knowledge of certain skills. Apart from the further development of the craft production, during Milutin's time there was a new codification of it, as it could be seen from Banjska charter, which is the first significant source on crafts organization and with legal norms about some crafts, that is preserved until today.