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Terminology
The term "Gregorian Reform" was promulgated by Augustin Fliche's three-volume study of Gregory VII (La Réforme grégorienne). However, the scholarly discourse surrounding this terminology and historiography underwent significant scrutiny and reevaluation by historians such as Joseph Ryan, John Gilchrist, Ovidio Capitani during the latter half of the 20th century, asserting that it represents a misrepresentation and an oversimplification of the multifaceted efforts made by Gregory's predecessors, some of which were not directly influenced by him and consequently purports an image that the reforms were created solely by him.

The centrality of the role of Gregory VII has been assumed by historians since the Reformation, when the judgement of Protestant polemicists, that ‘Gregory VII, the most lauded of popes, [was] far more cruel and wicked than Nero’, sparked off the long and fierce debate about Gregory’s character and influence. This assumption of Gregory’s pre-eminence in the papal reform movement is symbolized in the term ‘Gregorian reform’ coined by Augustin Fliche.