The abbe Migne carried his Latin patrology down to the time of Innocent III.
It is clear that in the circumstances the terms "father," "patristic," "patrology" must be used with much elasticity, since it is now too late to substitute for them any more comprehensive terms.
He was a pioneer in the fields of patrology and of biblical archaeology.
He was the compiler of an immense Patrology, Histoire generale des auteurs sacres et ecclesiastiques (23 vols., Paris, 1729-1763), being a history and analysis of the writings of all the ecclesiastical writers of the first thirteen centuries.
The Greek patrology contains, however, besides the text, a Latin translation, and in both patrologies there is much editorial matter.