Which text is valuable for gaining context about a historical event but is unreliable as "evidence"?
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historical novel
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One text that is valuable for gaining context about a historical event but is unreliable as "evidence" is a historical novel.

Explanation:

A historical novel, a novel that has as its frame a period of antiquity and that efforts to carry the spirit, manners, plus social circumstances of a past age with faithful detail and accuracy (which is in some cases only apparent fidelity) to historical fact.

sir thomas more, venerated in the catholic church as saint thomas more, was an english lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman, and noted renaissance humanist. he was also a councillor to henry viii, and lord high chancellor of england from october 1529 to 16 may 1532.