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Chapter 3 – Italian and Habsburg-Valois Wars (1494-1559) INTERNATIONAL POLITICS AND WARFARE IN THE LATE MIDDLE AGES AND EARLY MODERN EUROPE A Bibliography of Diplomatic and Military Studies William Young Chapter 3 Italian and Habsburg-Valois Wars (1494-1559) Europe (1494-1559) Anderson, Matthew Smith. The Origins of the Modern European State System, 1494-1618. The Modern European State System series. London: Longman, 1998. Bonney, Richard. “Europe in the Age of the Italian Wars, 1494-1559.” Chapter 2 in The European Dynastic States, 1494-1660. The Short Oxford History of the Modern World series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. Creighton, Mandell. A History of the Papacy from the Great Schism to the Sack of Rome. Six volumes. New edition. London: Longman, Green and Co., 1897. Edwards, John. The Spain of the Catholic Monarchs, 1474-1520. History of Spain series. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000. Elton, Geoffrey R. Reformation Europe, 1517-1559. 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