For a time during their history, maces were both functional and symbolic, both lethal and ceremonial, but gradually their warlike aspect diminished and it became entirely symbolic. Despite elaboration ...

“Its side job is being a university ceremonial object.” Two other ceremonial objects — the university mace and the president’s collar — are featured during the installation; they also play their ...

Maces were originally medieval weapons of war that soldiers carried when protecting important people. Today, maces are purely ceremonial staffs carried at the front of processions during university ...

It's taken more than 115 years but Fenton is finally set to get a ceremonial mace. And it comes as Stoke-on-Trent enters its centenary year as a city. As part of the planned celebrations talented ...

So what is the Mace exactly? The ceremonial Mace is a highly ornamented staff of metal, wood or other materials, carried by a Mace-bearer or placed before a sovereign or other high officials in ...