Heresies that could have been.

I'm trying find out if the Christian and islamic world could have been balkanised during the medieval period so 1 sect or heresy can consolidate it's hold in one area and be surrounded by different ideologies around it. E.g. catholic Italy with its neighbours all run by different sects.
 
Wasn't much of the ERE Bogomilist at one point?

More successful Catharism? Wycliffites/Lollards or Hussites more successful?

Or are you talking about fictional heresies?

A heretical movement in Castile in response to the Inquisition?

A longer Western Schism leading to outright heresy?
 
Wycliffites/Lollards or Hussites more successful?

Well, many Protestants would argue that those fellows actually were successful, in the sense that their ideas didn't die with them, but eventually came to fruition during the Reformation.
 

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I'm trying find out if the Christian and islamic world could have been balkanised during the medieval period so 1 sect or heresy can consolidate it's hold in one area and be surrounded by different ideologies around it. E.g. catholic Italy with its neighbours all run by different sects.
In OTL, the one major factor which contributed to the standardization of Christianity into one dominant orthodoxy is the Roman Empire. Then Islam imitated Christianity and developped its own orthodoxy.

In order to have a more varied picture, I believe it is necessary to have the Roman Empire disappear earlier and more thoroughly than IOTL. 2 possible PODs:
  • Julian the Apostate is successful in reinstating Paganism alongside Christianity in the mid-IVth century. After his death, the ERE is plunged into a religiously motivated civil war that leads to its break-up.
  • Constantinople is sacked at about the same time as Rome is (early Vth century) and as a result, both halves of the Empire are broken up into sucessor states.
In both TLs, we could have Manichee principalities, Jewish-Christian states, syncretic Pagan-Gnostic kingdoms, and so forth.
 
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