What was the morning stars and maces types of?

Answer 1

Both are medieval weapons. A mace isbasicallya club with a metal head to increase the energyof the impact. A morning star is similar, but the head includes protruding spikes.

Modern reproductions of the morningstar sometimes have the weapon's head attached with a length of chain, similar to a flail. The authentic medieval military flail was more commonly simply two lengths of wood, similar to the agricultural flail that was used to thresh grain, with the striking end sometimesreinforcedwith metal. The degree to which the "spiked ball and chain" version of the morning star is authentic, and to how common its use was, is subject to debate and speculation, There are a few such weapons extant, but they seem to date from the very late middle ages to the 16th century.