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A morning star (middle) shown among other club designs Morning star (left), next to a ball-and-chain flail (right) A morning star (German: Morgenstern) is any of several medieval club-like weapons consisting of a shaft with an attached ball adorned with one or more spikes. Such weapons provided their wielders with a combination of blunt-force ...
An example held in the Pitt Rivers Museum has a wooden ball-shaped head studded with iron spikes. Another in the Royal Armouries collection has two spiked iron balls attached by separate chains. The knout , a whip or scourge formerly used in Russia for the punishment of criminals, was the descendant of the flail.
Reproduction of a medieval scourge. A scourge (Latin: flagrum; diminutive: flagellum) consists of a rope with metal balls, bones, and metal spikes. The scourge, or flail, and the crook are the two symbols of power and domination depicted in the hands of Osiris in Egyptian monuments. [1] The shape of the flail or scourge is unchanged throughout ...
The mace is often confused with the spiked morning star or with the articulated flail. Mere – short, broad-bladed Māori club, usually made from nephrite jade and used for making forward-striking thrusts; Morning star – a medieval club-like weapon consisting of a shaft with an attached ball adorned with one or more spikes
Swords can have single or double bladed edges or even edgeless. The blade can be curved or straight. Arming sword; Dagger; Estoc; Falchion; Katana; Knife; Longsword; Messer; Rapier; Sabre or saber (Most sabers belong to the renaissance period, but some sabers can be found in the late medieval period)
The annual Atherstone Ball Game descended into chaos as violence broke out among players. Played every Shrove Tuesday, the “football” game - which dates back to medieval times - involves ...
In the 2010 case Couch was found in possession of several shotguns, ammunition, a.38-caliber revolver and a medieval mace : a spiked metal ball attached to a metal handle by a chain.
The Siege and Destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans Under the Command of Titus, A.D. 70, by David Roberts (1850), shows the city burning. Early thermal weapons, which used heat or burning action to destroy or damage enemy personnel, fortifications or territories, were employed in warfare during the classical and medieval periods (approximately the 8th century BC until the mid-16th century AD).