Criticism of the Papacy in the Alexiad - Similar to later Reformer

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I've been reading The Alexiad, and I noticed that Anna Komnene does not bother to hide her hostility against the Papacy (specifically referring to Gregory VII and the Investiture Controversy).

This is just my own opinion, but her criticisms against the conduct of the Pope almost sound proto-Reformist: that is, most of what she says is familiar, because it is similar to what many leaders during the Reformation (as well as various groups aiming for reform that were declared "heretical" before then) criticized the Papacy for. She writes about the supreme irony of "the Pope clad in spiritual grace and evangelic peace started out for a civil war with all his energy and might [against Henry]; yes, he, the man of peace and the disciple of that Man of Peace!"

"For he [Pope Gregory VII] immediately summoned the Saxons and their Counts... and besides other enticements, promised to make them kings of the West, and thus won them over to his side to depose the King of the Germans. You see how ever-ready a hand the Pope had for laying hands on the heads of kings, unheeding St. Paul's advice 'Lay hands hastily on no man'.".

The rest of the passage basically details the corruption of the Papacy and its entanglement/obvious preoccupation with temporal rule and power., before resuming about Robert Guiscard's attempts at war with the ERE.

Very interesting.

t.not a Christcuck