Danish Dynastic Histories in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Claus Christoffersen Lyschander, Vitus Bering, Ludvig Holberg and Hans Peter Anchersen

Many of today’s historians of early modern Europe agree: dynasticism, that is to say kinship structures and a political culture prioritising family interests and solidarity, matters.¹ The great nineteenth- and twentieth-century historians on the other hand often neglected the dynastic element of early modern political and social history, and there is still a need to reemphasise and integrate it into our historical understanding of early modern Europe and the wider world. From a historiographical point of view, it is not difficult to explain why the great liberal historians of the nineteenth century and their more economically and socially orientated heirs