ПРОТОИНДУСТРИЈАЛИЗАЦИЈА КРОЗ ПРИЗМУ СРПСКЕ СРЕДЊОВЕКОВНЕ ПРОИЗВОДЊЕ 14. И 15. ВЕКА
PROTO-INDUSTRIALIZATION THROUGH THE PRISM OF SERBIAN MEDIEVAL PRODUCTION OF THE 14TH AND 15TH CENTURIES

Summary/Abstract: The phenomenon of proto-industrialization, in the field of production and work, belongs to the long chronological period of the so-called Tool Age, which began at the dawn of human history and lasted until the Industrial Revolution. However, while the beginning of the industrial era was marked by the invention and use of the steam engine, there is no unified opinion about the beginning of proto-industrialization, although it is accepted that it reached its peak in the period from the 16th to the 18th centuries. Despite decades of debate, the theory of proto-industrialization still leaves a number of unresolved questions, including the meaning and beginnings of proto-industry itself, as well as the branch of production in which it reached its maximum expression. Additionally, the very phenomenon of proto-industrialization can actually be viewed from three angles: the development of proto-industry, process of proto-industrialization and theory. Considering, in the first place, that proto-industrialization was actually a phase between the agrarian and industrial economy, i.e. classical feudalism and early capitalism, we will consider here the elements of early proto-industrialization through the prism of Serbian medieval production of the 14th and 15th centuries, from all three mentioned aspects, and with certain adjustments in respect of the historical and geographical development of medieval Serbia itself.

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