Dageschalke

In the Middle Ages, the term Dageschalke or Dagewerchten was the name given to the self-employed , i.e. the unfree servants in town and country , which were usually neither property nor marital , but nevertheless subject to latent protection under criminal law .

Salary books and table arrangements also confirm that even court artists, together with barbers , musicians, tailors, cooks, guards, fools and dwarfs , were run as stipendarii or simply dageschalke .