This paper is a condensed version of a lecture given in the Department of Slavonic Studies of the University of Cambridge in January 1992. I am grateful to Professor A. G. Cross, his students and faculty colleagues for their comments on that occasion, and also to Doctor Avril Pyman of the University of Durham, who helped earlier with several points of interpretation.
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