In Pauline Economy in the Middle Ages, “''The Spiritual Cannot Be Maintained Without The Temporal...” Beatrix F. Romhányi examines the estate management of the Pauline order, and argues it was a transitory system between monastic and mendicant economy.

"In Pauline Economy in the Middle Ages ''The Spiritual Cannot Be Maintained Without The Temporal ...'' Beatrix F. Romhányi examines the estate management of the Pauline order - the only religious community native to medieval Hungary. Sources on the history, and especially on the economy, of the order have survived in exceptionally high numbers compared to other religious communities in Hungary. In the late Middle Ages, the order developed a unique estate management system. Based on the income of their landed estates and their privileges, the Paulines increasingly moved towards the capitalistic estate management around 1500, while donations, alms and annuities still composed a significant part of the incomes connecting the Paulines to the mendicant orders"--

This straightforward, clear and very approachable account of the development of the European economy and its infrastructure from the second century to 1500 has been deservedly popular with students and general readers alike since it was first publishes some twenty years ago.