One way to use LLT search is if you want to see what sources have used a particular word or phrase. I will use my research as an example. I wanted to find pre-1100 AD references to women and anger. I selected the years I was interested in under So I searched “ir* mulier*”. By using just the stem and an asterisk it will search for all noun forms with the various endings.
And here are the results:
83 references from various source! It will take me a while to go through these for my particular project, but there is a tool on LLT that makes this easy: PDF download.
In the left-side menu toward the bottom there is the menu box “Export”. Click on the link for selecting all (or if you want to only select the first page of 1-10). If you want on the text and contextual surrounding sentences included, check those boxes. Then you can either email yourself the search or download the PDF immediately.
The PDF will look like:
Why is it useful to include the background information? Because it will help you find scholarly editions of the text/s you are collecting and you can find and cite the scholarly edition rather than the database.
Important search feature:
If you want to modify your search DO NOT HIT THE BACK BUTTON! Instead, LLT has included a useful "Query" tool box on the left habd size of the screen.
If you click "modify" you will go back to the word/phrase search box page without it clearing your search parameters!
Other tools on this search page:
Inn the upper right hand corner of each entry you will notice images of a diagram, an open book, a text page, and a page with a red A (for Adobe PDF)
If you click on the diagram it will take you to a Table of Contents for that source:
If you click on the open book it will pop up a window with the background information for the text:
If you click on the text page icon it will open a new tab with the full text and a control bar for going forward and back in the text:
If you click on the red "A" page icon it will open a new tab with a downloadable PDF with the selection of the text and the background information of the text: