In the preface to Sodano's monograph, Aurelio Musi emphasizes that among the specific aspects of greater 'historiographical innovation' that Sodano provides are the useful elements to 'better understand the cultural history of the family.' Furthermore, on a more general level, the study of the Acquaviva can contribute to dispelling the stereotype of southern feudality as being 'essentially uncouth and uneducated' (Sodano, 2012: 9-10).

Amongst this, women played a role in the form of allocating funds from endowments, estates and feudality in order to build a new building, completion of unfinished buildings or renovation and restoration of old buildings.

But intrinsically we are still predominantly a feudal polity, with feudality entrenched unshakably in the polity's socio-economic dispensation and feudalism living in the temperament of the elites from one to all.

The over-riding emphasis of Pakistani elite, feudality, bureaucracy and military, led to the pro-western approach in its foreign policy dealings.

The location, design and structure of the civic centre had symbolic meaning; it lies adjacent to the castle, and architects ensured that the collegiate, democratic, white-toned architecture sharply contrasted with the feudality of the castle.