Abstract
In this paper we examine the use of the word campus in the Carolingian
charters of the monasteries of Wissembourg, Lorsch and Fulda before the year 840. We
identify the different registers and frameworks in which it is employed (patristics, exegesis,
the vernacular, formulae, perceptions of the agrarian landscape) and also distinguish between
usages in the different scriptoria. The objective is to understand the meaning of a seemingly
transparent term within the agrarian system and in relation to the logic behind the production
of these charters.