Gregorian Reform

Gregorian reforms are named after Pope Gregory VII ecclesiastical reform movement of the 11th and 12th centuries, dating back to the 1075 written Dictatus Papae that as an alternative to simony, clerical marriage ( Nicolaitism ) and lay investiture was born. Their goal was the achievement of libertas ecclesiae. They received, for example, its implementation Beginning of the 12th century with the disentanglement of the Curia from the dependence of secular powers and with a strengthening of the position of the papacy.

Intellectual center was the powerful Burgundian abbey of Cluny, in the Cluniac reform arose and was carried on in Germany with the Hirsauer reform.