My book is now available in the UK and the US (price 60 GBP/99 USD):

Jacket

Further details and preview at CUP website.

Obviously, you should buy it if you are interested in religion or gender or sex (there's a whole chapter on sex) or violence (there's also a chapter on warfare) or lordship (chapter 6) or counts (chapter 5) or money (chapter 7). But even if you're not interested in Aachen or Zwentibold or many other topics in between, please buy my book anyhow. Because then you can come back to this blog post and leave comments on how much better a book it would have been if you'd written it instead of me.