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Recent scholarship, notably that of Nigel Morgan, suggests that Paris's influence on other artists of the period has been exaggerated.

This is likely because so much more is known about him than other English illuminators of the period, who are mostly anonymous.

Most manuscripts seem to have been produced by lay artists in this period.

William de Brailes is shown with a clerical tonsure, but he was married, which suggests he had minor orders only.

The manuscripts produced by Paris show few signs of collaboration, but art historians detect a School of St Albans ' surviving after Paris's death, influenced by him.